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    Artwork Survey: 2010s

    Arlene Shechet
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    • Better Than Black
      2010
      Glazed ceramic on steel base
      72 × 13 × 21 inches

      Photo: Cathy Carver

      © Arlene Shechet

    • So and So and So and So and On and On
      foreground
      2010
      Glazed and fired ceramic on glazed kiln brick base
      51½ × 45 × 35 inches

      Installation view: The Sound of It, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

      Photo: Cathy Carver

      © Arlene Shechet

    • The Sound of It
      2010

      Installation view: Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

      Photo: Cathy Carver

      © Arlene Shechet

    • Was Still
      2011
      Glazed and fired ceramic on brick base
      44 × 15 × 15 inches

      Photo: Alan Wiener

      © Arlene Shechet

    • A Night Out
      2011
      Glazed and fired ceramic on wood base
      45 × 13 × 17 inches

      Photo: Alan Wiener

      © Arlene Shechet

    • A Night Out
      detail
      2011
      Glazed and fired ceramic on wood base
      45 × 13 × 17 inches

      Photo: Alan Wiener

      © Arlene Shechet

    • Because the Dark is Light
      detail
      2011
      Glazed and fired ceramic on solid pine and steel base
      66⅛ × 22 × 25 inches

      Photo: Alan Wiener

      © Arlene Shechet

    • Rascal
      2011
      Glazed ceramic on solid wood and steel base
      60 × 17 × 17 inches

      Photo: Alan Wiener

      © Arlene Shechet

    • Slick Drip
      2011
      Glazed ceramic on hardwood base
      53½ × 10½ × 15 inches

      Photo: Alan Wiener

      © Arlene Shechet

    • Borrowed From Ghosts
      2011
      Glazed ceramic on solid wood base
      74 × 18 × 14 inches

      Photo: Alan Wiener

      © Arlene Shechet

    • Mountains are Aware
      2012
      Glazed ceramic on concrete base
      48 × 15 × 15 inches

      Photo: Alan Wiener

      © Arlene Shechet

    • Tall Tale
      detail
      2012
      Glazed ceramic, glazed kiln brick, kiln tray, steel on acrylic glass base
      69 × 25 × 23 inches

      Photo: Martin Brading

      © Arlene Shechet

    • From Seeing Summer
      detail
      2012
      Glazed ceramic on solid hardwood base
      57 × 17 × 16 inches
      Collection of the RISD Museum

      Photo: Terry Brown

      © Arlene Shechet

    • Blue Out
      2012
      Glazed ceramic on concrete base
      43 × 17 × 18 inches

      Photo: Jason Wyche

      © Arlene Shechet

    • Breaking the Mold
      2012

      Installation view: Nature Morte, Berlin

      © Arlene Shechet

    • Mold of the Mold #29694 Pushed
      2012
      Glazed Meissen porcelain
      11⅞ × 9⅞ × 9⅞ inches

      Photo: Jason Wyche

      © Arlene Shechet

    • Sounds Like
      2013
      Glazed ceramic on glazed kiln bricks
      107 × 17½ × 17 inches

      Photo: Alan Wiener

      © Arlene Shechet

    • Stories
      left
      2013
      Glazed ceramic and steel base
      71¾ × 20 × 18 inches

      Center: Particular and Specific or Something, 2013; Glazed ceramic, lacquered gold, and cement base; 55½ x 18 x 14 inches. Right: Naked, 2013; Glazed ceramic, lacquered gold on wood base; 65 x 13½ x 11¾ inches.
      Installation view: Slip, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

      Photo: Alan Wiener

      © Arlene Shechet

    • Naked
      detail
      2013
      Glazed ceramic, lacquered gold on wood base
      65 × 13½ × 11¾ inches

      Photo: Alan Wiener

      © Arlene Shechet

    • All Sound
      2013
      Glazed ceramic on painted steel base
      77 × 18 × 18 inches

      Photo: Alan Wiener

      © Arlene Shechet

    • The Possibility of Ghosts
      2013
      Glazed ceramic on painted wood table
      52 × 78 × 47¾ inches

      Photo: Alan Wiener

      © Arlene Shechet

    • No Noise
      2013
      Glazed ceramic on painted wood base
      67¾ × 17 × 14 inches

      Photo: Alan Wiener

      © Arlene Shechet

    • Out and Out
      2013
      Glazed ceramic, glazed kiln bricks on wood base
      71½ × 27 × 16 inches
      Collection of the Princeton University Art Museum

      Photo: Alan Wiener

      © Arlene Shechet

    • Not to Mention
      foreground
      2013
      Glazed ceramic on painted plywood base
      70 × 32 × 15¾ inches

      Installation view: Slip, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

      Photo: Alan Wiener

      © Arlene Shechet

    • Meissen Recast
      2014

      Installation view: RISD Museum, Providence

      Photo: Erik Gould

      © Arlene Shechet

    • The Idol
      2012
      Glazed Meissen porcelain, gold
      14½ × 8½ × 12 inches

      Photo: Erik Gould

      © Arlene Shechet

    • Split Block
      2013
      Glazed Meissen porcelain, platinum
      8½ × 9 × 5 inches

      Photo: Prithi Gowda

      © Arlene Shechet

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